White Nationalist Is Latest to Sue Over Social Media Ban
Paul Elias, Associated Press, February 21, 2018
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Jared Taylor filed the lawsuit Tuesday in state court in San Francisco, marking the latest legal challenge filed by right-wing groups and figures banned from social media sites.
Taylor is the founder of the Virginia-based New Century Foundation, an IRS-classified charity that operates the American Renaissance online magazine. The magazine touts a philosophy that it’s “entirely normal” for whites to want to be a majority race.
Twitter suspended the accounts of well-known white nationalists in December, saying it was enforcing new rules aimed at reducing abusive content. Social media sites are under increasing public pressure to quickly flag and ban abusive, hateful and bullying posts by some of their billions of users.
Twitter’s new policy addresses hateful images or symbols, including those attached to user profiles. {snip}
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Twitter declined to comment on his lawsuit and accounts.
Similar challenges have been filed in California. Conservative activist Charles Johnson has a lawsuit against Twitter pending in a Fresno court after he was banned in 2015. The nonprofit Prager University is suing Google in Los Angeles federal court, alleging YouTube wrongfully censored some of its politically conservative content.
{snip} Taylor alleged in his lawsuit that Twitter’s ban has dealt a “crippling blow” to New Century Foundation fundraising.
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